A start to 2016

With garden plan and soil ready, we've begun our 2016 seeding. We've planted radish, spinach and lettuce seeds.

We're also very proud of volunteer David who has been honoured as the “Gardener of the Year” by the Lethbridge and District Horticultural Society.

Gardener of the Year

2015 Harvest Total

Our final harvest total for 2015 was 2098.5 lbs of fresh produce delivered with a final value of $5246.25.

From 2010 through 2015, the Lethbridge Research Centre Food Banks' Garden has produced 18200.5 lbs of produce with a value of $40849.75!

Harvest update

Our harvest total for so far this year is 963.5 lbs valued at $2408.75!

This includes 1 watermelon!

Progress

We have harvested all our beets and carrots and a second round has been seeded.

Onions

Baby Watermelon!

Straw mulch has been added to our tomatoes, peppers and eggplants to improve soil moisture retention and inhibit weeds.

First Harvest 2015

We harvested our first vegetables this week - radishes and spinach. Some of the radishes had been attacked by insects. Interestingly, these were in the rows nearest the trees. Our spinach is beginning to bolt so we pulled out the entire plants. We'll seed carrots in these rows next.

Spinach is starting to bolt

In the Garden 2015

In the LRC Food Banks' Garden for 2015, we have:

Beans
Swiss chard
Lettuce
Spinach
Watermelon
Eggplant
Tomato
Peppers
Beets
Radishes
Carrots
Onion
Cucumber
Raspberry

Soil Amendment Workshop - May 1, 2015

The Kinsmen Open Community Garden is hosting a FREE soil amendment workshop on Friday, May 1, 2015.

Spring 2015

We have our garden plan established and some early seeds in the ground. We're hoping to try a couple new crops - watermelon, onion....maybe even sweet potato!

Final total

This year we donated 3175 lbs of produce to the Interfaith Food Bank. This was valued at $7937.50.

In the five years we have been growing, we have donated over 16000 lbs of fresh produce with a value of $35,600.

Thank you to all our volunteers!

September 16 Harvest

Post frost - we're still harvesting!

We have now reached the grand total of 2300.5 lbs of produced delivered (valued at $5751.25).

Eggplants

September 16, 2014 Harvest